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πολυτέλεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυτέλεια

Structure: πολυτελει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polutelh/s

Sense

  1. extravagance

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • σὺ γὰρ ὠνήσῃ καὶ χρήσῃ εἰσ οὐδὲν καὶ καταγελασθήσῃ πρὸσ τῶν πεπαιδευμένων, οἷσ ἀπόχρη ὠφελεῖσθαι οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ κάλλουσ τῶν βιβλίων οὐδ’ ἐκ τῆσ πολυτελείασ αὐτῶν, ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῆσ φωνῆσ καὶ τῆσ γνώμησ τῶν γεγραφότων. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 28:6)
  • μόλισ γὰρ ἂν οὕτω δυνηθείη οὐ δικασταῖσ ἀλλὰ συναγωνισταῖσ ὑμῖν χρησάμενοσ μὴ παντάπασιν ἀνάξιοσ τῆσ τοῦ οἴκου πολυτελείασ νομισθῆναι. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 32:3)
  • πόλεων μὲν οὖν μεγέθη καὶ λαμπρότητασ καὶ πολυτελείασ κατασκευῶν θαυμάζουσι πολλοί, πατρίδασ δὲ στέργουσι πάντεσ· (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 1:4)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξ οὐσίασ λαμπρᾶσ καὶ οἴκου καὶ τραπέζησ καὶ πολυτελείασ εἰσ τρίβωνα καὶ πήραν καὶ προσαίτησιν ἐφημέρου τροφῆσ κατάξεισ; (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 2:14)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξ οὐσίασ λαμπρᾶσ καὶ οἴκου καὶ τραπέζησ καὶ πολυτελείασ εἰσ τρίβωνα καὶ πήραν καὶ προσαίτησιν ἐφημέρου τροφῆσ κατάξεισ; (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 6:11)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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